Apple, alongside WWDC, launched its new advertising campaign that revolves around what is written on the box of every Apple product, “Designed by Apple in California”. Setting up a website to accompany the ad campaign, and a 60 second video commercial, Apple has now taken to print – specifically, newspapers. The above picture, taken by Drake Shipway,…

The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) has recently been investigating the use of eBook readers, laptops and tablets by passengers during the takeoff and landing of flights. Happily for the frequent flyer, things are looking up for the use of the devices, as it seems likely that the FAA will give approval this year, according the The New York…

If you read our article on Ambify on Friday, you’ll know I’m quite the fan of Philips’ Hue lighting system. It was definitely one of the things that ‘made my 2012′ on the accessory front, and seeing applications utilize it makes me a little bit excited inside. So, you can imagine how happy I am now that Philips has announced an iOS SDK and APIs for the…

Apple has just been granted a patent that was filed back in 2007 for “microslot antenna” technology.With this, the company has the opportunity to greatly decrease how much space inside devices is consumed by components, allowing for much thinner, and – as technology evolves – much faster portable devices. The original patent filing showed the…

According to the slightly dubious Apple site Digitimes, Apple has cut its orders of panel displays for the iPad by 50%. Apparently, LG – maker of the displays for Apple’s tablet – has stated that it has received a 40% decrease in orders from Apple, with the possibility of dropping a further 50% very soon. Exactly why Apple would do this wasn’t mentioned,…

As you probably saw earlier today, Verizon announced that it sold 6.2 million iPhones this past quarter. That added up to around 2/3 of all smartphone sales on Big Red, making it the best quarter for Cupertino’s device on Verizon. Well, taking this information a little further, analyst Brian White of Topeka Capital Markets has said that 11%…

CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Morris Chang, has recently released a statement saying that his company will sell more of its new 2o nanometer process technology than the currently available 28 nanometer version within two years. As Chang said: “Enough discussions have taken place, with enough customers who have large requirements…

If you live in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Portland, Oregon, own an iPhone 4/4S, are a customer of US Bank, and have a US Bank FlexPerks Travel Rewards Visa Signature card (or qualify for one), have I got news for you. US Bank has announced that it will be releasing an NFC enabled iPhone case that will be a trial of its Go Mobile payment service. The…

It is not a secret that Apple makes a lot of money. It also is no secret that large companies, particularly the technology ones who are part of a booming industry, use different techniques and methods to avoid paying the US corporate income tax. The way Apple has been found to do this, is it moves a large percentage (around 70%) to “overseas affiliates”…

Waze, a crowd-sourced turn-by-turn mapping application, appears to be the only iPhone app to significantly benefit from Apple Maps’ less-than-stellar debut. According to Onavo, makers of the data compression tool Onavo, data from 100,000 of their users has confirmed a growth in the use of the Waze app from 7% to 10% of iPhone users. Apparently, due to…

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